Show Spiders Online on ForumHome

This one is a pretty easy hack to install. It shows any spiders that are indexing your site in the what's going on box on the forum home page. Please note. It will only show spiders as spiders and not as guests if it also shows them as spiders and not as guests on online.php.

This hack has been tested on 3.0.6 and 3.0.7.

It's not hard to install, but it does have one drawback. If you have a portal page that shows online users, you will have to edit it yourself to incorporate the changes. Consider yourself warned.

At this point, any problems reported are installation errors. If things don't work for you, make sure you have completed all the steps as written.

As I have upgraded to 3.5, I am withdrawing support for this older version. All the bugs are gone and any issues are now installation errors.

FAQ
1. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on my portal page.
As noted above, because of the large number of portals, you're on your own for integrating them into thie hack.

2. I get this: [ARG:3 UNDEFINED] spiders on other pages.
1. Make sure you have done all of the code changes correctly.
2. Make sure you have updated your style to use the modified templates. If not, that error will occor.

German Translation provided by General. It can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=230

Here is the Advanced CMPS module that y'all have been clamoring for:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=82339


Amy

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[oldfan]

anyone else, please

[hotwheels]

Thanks amykhar, that is an awesome addition to my site......

I clicked install

[hotwheels]

go to your admincp panel........locate langauges and phrases on the left hand side of the page., and open that menu. Now click on phrase manager....you should now see a phrase menu........on the bottom of that page, click on search in phrases....in the search for text box, place: x_members_and_y_guests inside of it.....then select "Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name" and click on find......

another box will pop up "Search Results" and you will see "x_members_and_y_guests" .........now click on the word edit over to your right...in the translation box, add {1} members and {2} guests and {3} spiders

then click save.........you are done

hotwheels

[oldfan]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

go to your admincp panel........locate langauges and phrases on the left hand side of the page., and open that menu. Now click on phrase manager....you should now see a phrase menu........on the bottom of that page, click on search in phrases....in the search for text box, place: x_members_and_y_guests inside of it.....then select "Phrase Text and Phrase Variable Name" and click on find......

another box will pop up "Search Results" and you will see "x_members_and_y_guests" .........now click on the word edit over to your right...in the translation box, add {1} members and {2} guests and {3} spiders

then click save.........you are done


hotwheels

I got that part done, but it seems like the addon isn't working.
Is it supposed to be like this? Currently Active Users: 13 (11 members and 2 guests) or Currently Active Users: 13 (11 members and 2 guests and 0 Spiders)?
I removed it for the time being.

[hotwheels]

Currently Active Users: 13 (11 members and 2 guests and 0 Spiders)?

should be like this...

[hotwheels]

It is working right this minute on my site:

Currently Active Users: 12 (8 members and 3 guests and 1 spiders)
Most users ever online was 55, 13th July 2005 at 07:40 AM.
hotwheels , 87LXdude , 97windsor , gtconv91 , LT1LT1 , RedStng , slowbird , ViperKiller , google

[oldfan]

hrmmm, what am I doing wrong???

[hotwheels]

just follow the steps very carefully.......this hack work's perfectly.

[oldfan]

Well I reinstalled it and is working now??
I must have done something wrong the first time lol, thanks for everyones help

[high]* oldfan clicks install[/high]

[hotwheels]

that is awesome news........

[reismarktq2]

Originally Posted by yoyoyoyo

Attached is a list of all known 'Robot Agent' Strings, and the list is pretty current (only 2 days old at this point).

I'm not entirely sure how to add this...

I see two columns of data in that file. The second column would be the ID string and the first column would be the ID description, right?

[Hexemer]

Can you update that mod to 3.5, please?

[derekivey]

The 3.5 one is here -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...Spiders+Online

[bairy]

Originally Posted by xtreme-mobile

on the forum home it displays like this:
Currently Active Users: 14 (1 members and 13 guests and 0 spiders)
when i click "currently Active users" it displays like this:
1 members and 8 guests and 5 spiders

For those having this problem, the install instructions say:

In index.php
Find:
// memory saving

There are 3 lines that have this. Stick the addin code ($spiderlist = ....) under the last/bottom of the 3.
I stuck it above the top one with the above results, stuck it above the bottom one and it works.

This is documented in this thread, but IIRC that's under init.php and this is index.php. Either that poster got confused over usernames or it used to be in init.php

Either way, I stuck it above the 3rd and it worked.

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by bairy

For those having this problem, the install instructions say:


There are 3 lines that have this. Stick the addin code ($spiderlist = ....) under the last/bottom of the 3.
I stuck it above the top one with the above results, stuck it above the bottom one and it works.

This is documented in this thread, but IIRC that's under init.php and this is index.php. Either that poster got confused over usernames or it used to be in init.php

Either way, I stuck it above the 3rd and it worked.

Thanks for that, thats was the problem I also had. Your right it needs to be placed above the 3rd line from the top of the index.php file. And not the first or second instance of it.

Becuase when you asked to search for:

// memory saving

that line is listed 3 times and it's the last one you add it above.

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By the way, this is an exellent hack, should be a default thing if you ask me.

Installed clicked
I can also confirm that this works fine with vB 3.0.12